Republic of south africa

Source: DoH Nutrition Directorate
Other figures still awaiting for response from Province due to the decentralized food management system for hospitals only provinces can provide these figure.


4. FOOD PROVISION FOR OFFENDERS: DCS

The aim of the Department of Correctional Services is to contribute towards maintaining and protecting a just, peaceful and safe society, by:

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  enforcing court-imposed sentences;
  
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  detaining prisoners in safe custody;
  
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  promoting the social responsibility and human development of all prisoners and those subject to community corrections.
  

The Department's core business is the safe custody and supervision of offenders. It practices risk management in respect of offenders and acknowledges and applies the concept of humanity and human rights. It is responsible for running South Africa's prison system through the administration of 240 prisons, which accommodates about 189,748 inmates. The Department provides the offenders with food and all other life support groceries for their basic human rights to be not violated.

4.1 MTEF EXPENDITURE ON FOOD PROCUREMENT BY THE DEPARTMENT

The Department of Correctional Services through their facilities produce the bulk of the food which offenders consume but some of the other commodities they procure from commercial sources. Below is the composition of what is procured coupled with the budget allocated.

No.1	DESCRIPTION / COMMODITIES	BUDGET [R]
		Financial year 2008/09	Financial year 2009/10	Financial year 2010/11
1	BABY&SPECIAL FOODS	1 799 776	1,049,115.46	904,700
2	BREAD&CONFECTIONERY	49 625 668	60,805,110.74	65,569,950
3	EGGS&EGG PRODUCTS	3652 061	2,647,275.00	2,966,940
4	FRUIT & VEGETABLES	17 243 545	18,475,191.97	26,489,800
5	GROCERIES	181 270 887	189,008,577.46	197,953,091
6	MEAT,POULTRY,FISH	44 246 679	60,799,865.27	62,669,000
7	MILK&MILK PRODUCTS	12 173 091	10,101,835.21	11,818,700
Total : FOOD & FOOD SUPPLIES		310 011 709	342,886,971	368 372 181

ANNEXURE 2

SOUTH AFRICA’S GOVERNMENT SPENDING ON AGRICULTURE
African Union member states which in 2003 in Maputo became signatories to the Declaration of the African Union on Agriculture committed to increase public spending on agriculture to 10% of the country budgets. Below is the spending of the South African Government on agriculture.

Year	2004/5	2005/6	2006/7	2007/8	2008/9
National (R billion)	1.306	1.684	1.957	2.281	2.534
Provincial (R billion)	3.424	4.112	4.443	4.997	5.497
Total (R billion)	4.730	5.797	6.401	7.278	8.032
Total annual budget (R billion)	368.903	417.819	472.724	573.873	611.095
Percentage of budget	1.3%	1.4%	1.4%	1.3%	1.3%

ANNEXURE 3

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NUTRIENT COMPOSITION OF INDIGENOUS VEGETABLES AND COMMERCIAL VEGETABLES
The table below indicates the comparison of nutrient composition of the 100g edible portions for amaranth, spider plant and cabbage.

Nutrient	Amaranth	Spider plant	Cabbage
Iron (mg)	8.9	6.0	0.7
Protein (g)	4.6	4.8	1.7
Moisture (%)	84.0	86.6	91.4
Carbohydrates (g)	8.2	5.2	6.0
Fibre (g)	1.8	-	1.2
Ascorbic acid / Vit C (mg)	64	13	54
Calcium (mg)	103	111	40
β-carotene / Vit A (mg)	5716	-	100
Thiamine	0.05	-	0.04
Riboflavin	0.42	-	0.1

Nutrient composition per 100 g of edible portion of amaranth, spider plant & cabbage (Source: FAO).

1 Composition of the basic nutritious food basket: loaf of white bread (700g), loaf of brown bread (700g), super maize meal (5kg), special maize meal (5kg), rice (2kg), tinned butter beans (410g), onions (1kg), cabbage (1kg), potatoes (1kg), tomatoes (1kg), apples (1kg), bananas (1kg), orange (1kg), whole fresh chicken, stewing beef, long life full cream milk (1L), extra large eggs (1.5 dozen), sunflower oil (750ml), brick margarine (500g), peanut butter (410g), instant coffee regular (750g) and black / ceylon tea -tagless tea bags (62.5g) and canned tuna (replacing canned pilchards due to data limitations).

2 The South African Vitamin A Consultation Group [SAVACG] study that was done in 1994 and the National Food Consumption Survey – Fortification Baseline [NFCS-FB] study that was done in 2005. The SAVACG study included children aged 6 to 71 months, while the NFCS-BF included 1 to 9 year old children, as well as adult females.

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